{"id":28449,"date":"2018-04-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/this-is-the-laziest-opposition-i-ve-ever-seen\/"},"modified":"2018-04-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T00:00:00","slug":"this-is-the-laziest-opposition-i-ve-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/this-is-the-laziest-opposition-i-ve-ever-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThis Is The LAZIEST Opposition I\u2019ve Ever Seen\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Veteran 7 News political reporter Mike Smithson says the current state Labor opposition is the \u201claziest\u201d he\u2019s ever seen.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"958\" width=\"638\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mike_smithson.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cI\u2019ll put it out there, and this won\u2019t win too many friends with Labor people,\u201d Smitho told FIVEAA on Wednesday.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI\u2019ve been covering politics now for 23 years and been interested in it a lot longer than that, so I\u2019ve seen governments come and go.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI would say for the first few weeks in opposition this is the laziest opposition that I\u2019ve seen. They might say we don\u2019t have a leader, well you still do have a leader, you have Jay Weatherill.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cHe has announced his intention to step down but caucus hasn\u2019t chosen a new leader so we presume that Jay is still it. I haven\u2019t seen or heard from him since the day after the election. Ok they\u2019re disappointed\u2026 there\u2019s still 19 of them that have been elected.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWhat are they doing? Are they in their electorate offices? I certainly hope so, because were paying good money &#8212; $200,000 a year for a back bencher.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIf you are on holidays then don\u2019t take another lot of holidays in August when parliament goes into its winter recess, and don\u2019t have holidays the four weeks over Christmas. It\u2019s not just sit around and put your feet up because you\u2019re not happy because you haven\u2019t won and its not our problem any more.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIt\u2019s the laziest opposition I\u2019ve seen, that\u2019s my judgement of it in the first three weeks\u2026 they\u2019ve been invisible.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIVEAABreakfast?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FIVEAABreakfast<\/a> podcast with David &amp; Will:<br><br>iTunes <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NmIb1ouVbB\">https:\/\/t.co\/NmIb1ouVbB<\/a><br>Online <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bRnBgk71AC\">https:\/\/t.co\/bRnBgk71AC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TfMqwj9Iw8\">pic.twitter.com\/TfMqwj9Iw8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FIVEAA (@1395FIVEAA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1395FIVEAA\/status\/981347802834878465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran 7 News political reporter Mike Smithson says the current state Labor opposition is the \u201claziest\u201d he\u2019s ever seen. \u201cI\u2019ll put it out there, and this won\u2019t win too many friends with Labor people,\u201d Smitho told FIVEAA on Wednesday. \u201cI\u2019ve been covering politics now for 23 years and been interested in it a lot longer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[246,245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-28449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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